Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday, 9 June 2026 credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 12-year tenure with transforming government welfare initiatives into what he called a 'strong guarantee of a better life for crores of Indians,' listing flagship schemes spanning housing, water, health, finance, and digital infrastructure.

Context

Posting under the hashtag #12YearsOfSeva, Rijiju wrote in Hindi: 'बीते 12 वर्षों में माननीय प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेंद्र मोदी जी के नेतृत्व में जन-कल्याणकारी योजनाएँ केवल सरकारी पहल नहीं रहीं, बल्कि करोड़ों भारतीयों के बेहतर जीवन की मजबूत गारंटी बनी हैं' — ('In the past 12 years, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, welfare schemes have not remained mere government initiatives but have become a strong guarantee of a better life for crores of Indians.'). The post marks the completion of 12 years of the Modi-led central government, which assumed office in May 2014.

Rijiju enumerated a cluster of schemes: Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana for pucca housing, Jal Jeevan Mission for piped tap water, Ujjwala Yojana for cooking gas, Ayushman Bharat for health coverage, Jan Dhan and MUDRA Yojana for economic empowerment, UPI for digital payments, and road and airport expansion for improved connectivity. He described these collectively as '12 years of public service turning into public welfare, and of trust turning into development.'

Policy Backdrop

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, launched in 2015, was designed to provide pucca houses to rural and urban poor households. Jal Jeevan Mission, announced in 2019, set out to deliver piped tap water connections to every rural household in the country — a significant infrastructure undertaking across India's vast hinterland.

Ayushman Bharat, introduced in 2018, offers health insurance cover of up to Rs 5 lakh per family annually, targeting low-income households. Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the earliest of the cluster, was launched in August 2014 to bring the unbanked population into the formal financial system, laying the groundwork for subsequent direct benefit transfers and digital payment adoption. UPI, built by the National Payments Corporation of India and rolled out in 2016, has since scaled into one of the world's largest real-time payment platforms.

The broader policy model has relied on technology-mediated delivery — combining Aadhaar linkage, direct benefit transfers, and measurable household-level outcomes — rather than traditional input-based public spending. The Digital India programme, launched in July 2015, provided the overarching policy umbrella under which UPI and other digital services expanded.

Stakeholders and Impact

The schemes cited by Rijiju target overlapping but distinct beneficiary groups: rural households and urban poor families for housing and water, women from low-income households for Ujjwala cooking gas connections, the unbanked population for Jan Dhan accounts, and small entrepreneurs for MUDRA credit. Taken together, they represent the central government's multi-pronged approach to basic-services delivery over its two consecutive terms.

Senior BJP leaders across the country have used the #12YearsOfSeva occasion to amplify the government's welfare record, framing the anniversary as a political and governance milestone ahead of future electoral cycles.

What's Next

Analysts and parliamentary watchers will look to the forthcoming outcome budgets for 2025-26 and 2026-27 for verified physical and financial progress data on PMAY, Jal Jeevan Mission, and Ayushman Bharat. Possible new phases, enhanced fund allocations, or scheme expansions could be announced in the next full Budget Session of Parliament. The government's ability to demonstrate last-mile delivery on these programmes will remain central to its governance narrative going forward.